Bruce Lee Screen Test Video!
Check out Bruce Lee’s vintage screen test!
The Poster and Trailer for “Master Z: IP Man Legacy”
If you’re in the mood for some martial art madness, check out the poster and trailer for Master Z: IP Man Legacy starring Max Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Dave Bautista and Tony Jaa.
Watch John Romita Jr. Draw Batman!
Thanks to SYFY Wire we can watch and listen to John Romita Jr. as he draws Batman!
Eric Beetner Talks ALL THE WAY DOWN and More!
Eric Beetner’s new novel, All the Way Down, reads like a cross between Game of Death, Die Hard and The Raid: Redemption. It’s an action-packed page-turner. Beetner talks about All the Way Down and a more in an interview by Matt Phillips at Medium.
The Trick That Fooled Winston Churchill – Revealed
Today we have a magic trick famous for fooling Winston Churchill who had the magician repeat it 6 times!
Source: Bits and Pieces.
The Poster and Trailer for “Warrior” (Based on the Writings of Bruce Lee) is Here!
Bruce Lee fans probably know that Lee tried to sell a tv series about a Chinese warrior in the old west. Although the series never sold, the Kung Fu tv series was sure close… and sadly Bruce Lee didn’t get the lead, David Carradine did.
Thanks to Cinemax, Warrior, based on the writings of Bruce Lee is coming soon. Today we have the poster and first trailer. If I had Cinemax, I’d tune in.
Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden
Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden is a book that quite a few readers are going to want. If “Michael Golden” in the title isn’t enough to get folks to reach for their wallets perhaps the fact that it will be a hard cover reprinting rarely seen stories featuring Batman drawn by, you guessed it, Michael Golden!
The 1970s stories starring Batman featuring the slick artwork of Michael Golden are collected for the first time, including appearances by the Demon and Man-Bat. Golden is renowned for his design skills and unique interpretation of Batman and other heroes, as seen in these early stories, written by well-known comics writers including Dennis O’Neil, Gerry Conway and Mike W. Barr.
Collects shis collects stories from Batman Family #15-20, Batman #295, #303, DC Special Series #15, Detective Comics #482, Batman Special #1, Batman: Gotham Knights #22. It also collects the covers from Detective Comics #625-626, 628-631, 633, 644-646, Batman #484-485, Showcase ’93, Nightwing#66-77 & #129-130 and the Man-Bat entry from Who’s Who in the DC Universe #12.
Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden is available for pre-order now.
John Wick, Jack Carter and Giovanni Valletta
When I saw that Giovanni Valletta, an artist on the John Wick comic series was taking commissions, I jumped on board for a couple of head sketches (John Wick and Jack Carter). Because it took a little longer than expected to get the art to me Giovanni added more to the art and threw in some prints as well. That’s customer service!
“The Dirty Dozen” Gets the Cinephilia and Beyond Treatment!
The Dirty Dozen is a classic. If you agree, then you’re going to want to check out Slaughterhouse Twelve: Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen at Cinephilia and Beyond.
Click on the link and you’ll find…
- Nunnally Johnson & Lukas Heller’s screenplay for The Dirty Dozen
- OPERATION DIRTY DOZEN: A behind-the-scenes video on the making of The Dirty Dozen
- Rare behind-the-scenes photos
- and much more!
The “Master of Dark Shadows” Trailer is Here!
If you’re of a certain age, then the photo above of Jonathan Frid as Barnabus Collins will bring back a lot of great memories. Frid became a cult hero playing a vampire on a soap opera called Dark Shadows.
What’s interesting is that Dark Shadows started out as a typical soap opera. Because the series was facing cancellation, Curtis decided he had nothing to lose and brought in a vampire! Ratings soared and the series spawned two movies, comic books, novelizations, trading cards and more.
Rarely Seen “Conquest” Written and Drawn by Mike Zeck!
One of the great things about the internet is that you never know what will turn up. Today we have a splash page from a very rarely seen story written and drawn by Mike Zeck. The Sub-Mariner story, Conquest, appeared in the 1976 Omnicon Convention Program book.
I remember when I first read Conquest back in the late 70’s, thanks to my best bud, John Beatty. Mike’s story, in just 3 pages, perfectly captured the strength, power, majesty and mindset of Prince Namor.
Click over to The Bristol Board and check out Prince Namor, The Sub-Mariner in Conquest written and drawn by Mike Zeck!
Two New “Hellboy” Posters!
Two new Hellboy posters came out today. My favorite of the two is above. You can see a bigger version of it and the other new Hellboy poster at IMPAwards.
Watch Walt Simonson Draw Ragnarok!
Thanks to SYFY Wire we can watch and listen to legendary artist, Walt Simonson as he draws Ragnarok!
Albert Einstein Trivia
Lucas Reilly and Mental Floss present 19 Things You Might Not Have Known About Albert Einstein. Here are three of my favorites…
4. NOBODY KNOWS EINSTEIN’S IQ.
Einstein’s IQ was never tested, though that hasn’t stopped people from guessing. Lots of websites claim the physicist’s IQ was 160, but there’s simply no way of verifying that claim. “One fundamental problem with the estimates I’ve seen is that they tend to conflate intellectual ability with domain-specific achievement,” Dean Keith Simonton, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Davis told Biography. For all we know, Einstein’s aptitude in arenas outside of physics might have rivaled that of an average Joe.
6. FASHION WAS NOT EINSTEIN’S STRONG SUIT.
Einstein hated wearing socks and was immensely proud of the fact that he didn’t have to wear them while giving lectures at Oxford in the 1930s. His antipathy apparently stemmed from a childhood realization: “When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock,” Einstein reportedly said. “So I stopped wearing socks.” As an adult, he typically wore an undershirt, baggy trousers held by rope, and a pair of (occasionally women’s) sandals.
18. EINSTEIN WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR YODA.
Yoda’s face was partly modeled after Einstein’s. According to Star Wars special-effects artist Nick Maley, “A picture of Einstein ended up on the wall behind the Yoda sculptures and the wrinkles around Einstein’s eyes somehow got worked into the Yoda design. Over the course of this evolutionary process Yoda slowly changed from a comparatively spritely [sic], tall, skinny, grasshopper kind of character into the old wise spirited gnome that we all know today.”
Thomas Wheeler & Frank Miller are Cursed!
Last March it was announced that Frank Miller would provide the art and team with writer Thomas Wheeler for Cursed, a young adult novel retelling the King Arthur legend from the point of view of Nimue, the 16-year-old girl who first wielded Excalibur and ultimately became the Lady of the Lake.
Today we have one of Miller’s drawings for the novel and if you click over to Paste you can see the cover and read an excerpt.
If you’d like to order your own copy, you can here.
